Word: marxist
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With its bases in the Marxist philosophy repudiated by the U.S. victory in the Cold War, such a theory--that in any society there are a few people on top whose interests and benefit lie in their ability to fool the many on the bottom into supporting them--might well be spurned by the State Department...
...Susan Eisenhower, among others, might argue that America didn't win the Cold War (there was no invasion, no diplomatic crisis, no external threat that brought down the Soviet Union). The Russian people won it, with Marxist theory. It was ordinary Russian citizens along with renegade Russian soldiers who surrounded Boris Yeltsin on a hijacked tank in front of the Bely Dom during the August coup seven years ago. The many on the bottom of Soviet society refused to be fooled any longer into supporting...
Pinochet held power in Chile for 17 years after effecting a coup of Salvador Allende's Marxist government on Sept. 11, 1973. Thousands of people died and disappeared during Pinochet's rule...
...happens to be an ant colony, his beloved (Sharon Stone) its overindulged princess and his nemesis (Gene Hackman) a fascist general mounting a coup adds a nice weird touch to the tale, as does the dark-toned computer animation. Kids may be puzzled by rebellious worker ants chanting Marxist slogans, but their parental guides may welcome the relief from the prevailing blandness of family films...
DIED. YANG SHANGKUN, 91, former Chinese President and unreconstructed Marxist who in 1989 gave the order for the People's Liberation Army to fire on pro-democracy protesters in Tiananmen Square; in Beijing. A veteran of the Long March, Shangkun was an acolyte of Mao Zedong, and later his victim, imprisoned for 12 years during the Cultural Revolution. Rehabilitated in 1978, he was put in charge of the army by longtime revolutionary compatriot Deng Xiaoping...